The influence of surgical volume on hospital mortality and 5-year survival for carcinoma of the oesophagus and gastric cardia

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1 B, 2005, Pages 419-424

  Wenner, Jörgen ^a   Zilling, Thomas ^a   Bladström, Anna ^a   Alvegård, Thor A ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hospital mortality; Oesophageal surgery; Surgical volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARDIA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK; STOMACH DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 16344366876     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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